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RE: The end of the Watercolour Paint Journey
I like your water color art, one thing with water color the more you play with it the more you get a control on the outcome, for a start you did great 👍just keep practicing. I have used water color to paint before but professionally I wouldn’t use that for serious projects, there are good professional water color artist out there though. Acrylic paint is good but it tends to dry faster, I mostly make use of oil paint because it gives me ample time to go in between layers.
This was one of my old water color painting, This was like my first ever attempt on water color.
It was done on a sketch pad paper
https://steemit.com/world-of-xpilar/@iamguchidanart/water-color-portrait-of-a-boy-on-a-newsboy-hat
I like your painting, but this is exactly what I mean.. it's used in a way we would like acrylic painting. I always wonder what people mean by that acrylic paint dries too fast. It doesn't with me. There are times it's still wet the next day (oil paint takes weeks). I assume the reason is the cold and low temp.
Thanks for sharing this.
For now I like to practice with pen (but the ink seems to have a hard time to flow) .
Then that mean you wet your canvas with water i guess, but regardless oil paint is my favour it’s paint, would love to see more of your works. Same here i practice by posting sketches but most real work I do are in oil paintings.
I only wet those spots I will use the paint on. I tried to wet the entire paper but that doesn't seem to work out. Can be me, the wrong paper, the wrong paint or a combination.
I tried on canvas, which should be possible but for that is a different type of "gesso" is needed, and I don't like to buy that. Still, I do believe it must be possible to paint on canvas (or linen or cotton) since the paint remains in the cloths I use to dry the brushes. For sure I will try that, but for now I rather improve my sketching.
I tried watercolour painting for about 4 weeks and I like to do something else and fill out my "ugly" sketchbook with something else (plenty of books I can use for sketch books LOL).
I still cannot make the ink run, very annoying. In between I will sketch with a pencil and not use a raiser.
I really love the fact that you are trying out every method, this is how you tend to find a medium that suits you perfectly. Improving on your sketch will help you a lot, sketching is one of the first step to a successful drawing. I also think there will be a watercolor base paper out there that can help but finding it is another thing.
What type of pen do you use?? have you tried using hot water to heat the ink tube in the pen?
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